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ID: 300418005
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300418005

 

Record Type: concept
alems (finials) (finials, <culminating and edge ornaments>, ... Components (hierarchy name))

 

Note: Finials used in Islamic architecture, typically found atop a minaret, dome, or minber, usually tipped with a crescent.
 
Terms:
alems (finials) (preferred,C,U,English-P,D,U,PN)
alem (C,U,English,AD,U,SN)

Facet/Hierarchy Code:  V.PJ

Hierarchical Position:

Hierarchy of Objects Facet
Objects Facet
Hierarchy of Components (hierarchy name)
.... Components (hierarchy name) (G)
Hierarchy of components (objects parts)
........ components (objects parts) (G)
Hierarchy of <components by general context>
............ <components by general context> (G)
Hierarchy of <culminating and edge ornaments>
................ <culminating and edge ornaments> (G)
Hierarchy of finials
.................... finials (G)
Hierarchy of alems (finials)
........................ alems (finials) (G)

Sources and Contributors:
alem............  [VP, Williams Preferred]
...........  Contributed as a candidate term 23 July 2018, Kendra Werst, Williams College Art Department
...........  Glassie, Turkish Traditional Art Today (1993) 874
...........  Wharton, Architects of Ottoman Constantinople: Balyan Family (2015)
alems (finials)............  [VP Preferred]
.............................  Wharton, Architects of Ottoman Constantinople: Balyan Family (2015) 158
 
Subject: .....  [VP]
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
.......... Glassie, Turkish Traditional Art Today (1993) 874

 

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